Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid football player in the backfield in Bruce Molloy, who gave Harvard headaches with his running and punting from the single-wing fullback position last year...
...those days at least-Khrushchev winged back to Moscow, called on Marshal Georgy Zhukov, then Defense Minister, who airlifted dozens of supporters into Moscow to back him in the subsequent Central Committee fight. That time he won; this time he didn't. Perhaps the opposition now was too solid; perhaps he could no longer find supporters in the armed forces; perhaps he was too weary to make the effort...
...capsule, with its passengers still inside, made a soft landing on solid ground with the help of retrorockets...
...separated from the staccato directness of his voice and the energetic briskness of his gestures, his words seem hopelessly commonplace. Wednesday he began an address to the student body of Westport Academy by celebrating "all these bright shining faces of young people wanting to learn how to be good, solid citizens." He continued the string of hackneyed phrases for ten minutes, but the vigor and excitement of his voice triumphed in the end, and the students awarded him a crescendo of sincere applause...
...quickening. Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey and Bill Miller all were out hitting the hustings as hard as they could. Both Johnson and Goldwater made major political appearances on national television. To the President, the choice was whether the U.S. "will move ahead by building on the solid structure created by forward-looking men of both parties over the past 30 years. Or whether we will begin to tear down this structure and move in a radically different, and-I believe-a deeply dangerous direction." To Goldwater, the TV presentation was an occasion for simplifying complex issues, such...